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The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

The 1999 adaptation, Cruel Intentions, is a film which is an error that doesn't deserve to be betrayed - an injury that doesn't deserve to be betrayed. It shouldn't make any sense, that an injury can have the right to be honoured. An injury is pain, and it's grief and it's loss. A loss is intolerable, in actual fact - so Cruel Intentions actually translates to being a film which is an intolerance that doesn't deserve to be itself. From a casual perspective, of life, it's literally impossible to experience an intolerance. With this being the case, Cruel Intentions is a film which takes the very root concept of an impossibility and turns it into a mystery. Mystery is connected to impossibility, and therefore certainty is connected to possibility - all possibility is certain.And then that's when Cruel Intentions finds itself in a very awkward, and in a very messed up position: Cruel Intentions connects certainty to possibility, however, it's made this connection under the precarious terms of having also connected impossibility to certainty as well.Unfortunately for Cruel Intentions, it's just a no-brainer: connecting both possibility and impossibility to certainty is one of the most intellectually brainless things that's possible. How is it even remotely sane, that certainty is made into something that's simultaneously possible and impossible?A certainty is a fact. A fact isn't a possibility, and yet it's also a fact that a fact can't be an impossibility either. Where does the insanity end?Because of its lack of focus, and because of its lack of discipline and its lack of vision, the 1999 film Cruel Intentions is the absolute brainlessness of not giving a reason for why neither possibility and impossibility deserve to be distinguished from each other

There is a lot of mileage to get out of people who don't read, don't pay attention and have only a thin grasp of what is going on.Just how many versions of The Taming of the Shrew, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Three Musketeers, Kurosawa's stories... and here: Les Liaisons dangereuses, can Hollywood make before the populace cottons on to the plagiarism?Apparently, one heck of a lot! Particularly in America where so many would not even consider watching or reading the original, especially if is not in done with American characters or accents, or heaven forbid meant reading subtitles.Even here every non English word is flagged as a spelling mistake.

This film is apparently based or very loosely derived from the classic 80s film Dangerous Liaisons, which I learned just recently. I think people are wrong when they say that you can't do that with high school characters, 17 or 18 year olds are adults, they can have sex, get hurt, feel like killing themselves, or die. This can be done in high school, and I feel like the film did it well. Sarah Michelle Gellar was my favorite character, not because she's evil, but because I think she was PERFECT as Kathryn!! I feel like Ryan Philipe and Reese Witherspoon were great in their roles also. Now, for the movies faults, no. 1 is that kiss, yah the famous one, that was pretty pointless and unnecessary, what was it Just trying to keep the guys entertained. Stupid! No. 2, some of Cecil's lines were pretty stupid and weird, and Selma Blair as Cecil was a little awkward at moments, like the while Secret Society dance thing, um just no!! But overall a 7/10 is perfectly fair. A pretty good teen and adult film. Oh, almost forgot, I loved how they ended it with Kathryn, I'm not gonna say how they did it, watch it for yourself.

All the leads are in top form in this modern retelling of "Dangerous Liaisons" that I really enjoyed. Plot in A Paragraph: Kathryn (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and Sebastian (Ryan Phillipe) two wealthy, manipulative teenage step-siblings that make an unusual bet. The stakes are high, Sebastian bets Kathryn that he can seduce the proud virgin Annette (Reese Witherspoon) who is the daughter of the schools new headmaster, before school begins in the fall. Kathryn thinks this feat impossible and quickly agrees to the wager. The stakes: if Sebastian succeeds, Kathryn must give him a night of unbridled pleasure, something's he's wanted since their parents got married. If he fails, he must forfeit his priceless 1956 Jaguar to Kathryn.This could have been awful, if not for some brilliant performances. Sarah Michelle Gellar is a revelation in a more mature role, from what we'd previously seen her in at the time. Reese Witherspoon is perfectly cast as Annette as is Ryan Phillipe as the charismatic playboy Sebastian. Selma Blair more than holds her own as Cecile, and Christine Baranski is as brilliant as always as Cecile's protective mother.